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Show : MEN OF WAR : Marshal Petain I of Franee ff ..J1IEI '" ' . .. r . 0 ; MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN "France's greatest living soldier," expected to become the nation's war minister ... 83 years old . . . best known as hero at defense de-fense of Verdun . . . studied at St. Cyr infantry school, became professor of firing tactics at Supreme Su-preme War college ... as Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Petain, was best marksman on western front . . . led nation's troops to victory In Morocco . . . fulfilled a life-long dream at 64 when he married his boyhood sweetheart . . . organized France's aerial defenses ... is always awed by skyscrapers ... In 1926 returned re-turned to teaching in School of War at Paris, where Francisco Franco was pupil . . . last March appointed ambassador to nationalist nation-alist Spain . . . doesn't like to be photographed when not in uniform. |